Engineering Craft Machinist Careers

Work Environment:

Being an engineering craft machinist, you'd make components for machines, utilizing tools such as presses, grinders, drills, millers, lathes and cutters. You can produce medical equipment, engine components or parts for domestic appliances.

As an engineering craft machinist, your job would include:

• Administering the progress of work
• Planning out various job phases as per engineering directives

• Putting a preformed blank component on the bed of a mill or grinder, or in the jaws of lathe
• Calculating cutting speed
• Selecting and fixing the right machine-tool for work
• Checking quality of products
• Adjusting tolerance-levels on machinery

Qualification, Education and Experience:

You can be an engineering craft machinist by accomplishing a Traineeship. To gain entry to this scheme, you'd usually necessitate 4 GCSE grades (A to C), with subjects such as design and technology, Science, mathematics, engineering, and English, or similar qualifications.

The availability of Traineeships within your sector will rely on regional employment market and the kind of abilities employers want from employees.

Then again, you can take acquire an academy course into engineering, to train you with some skills which are required for this work. Related courses comprise:

• BTEC: Second Level Certificate into Engineering
• City and Guilds: Certificate into Engineering
• BTEC: Third Level Diploma or Certificate into Manufacturing Engineering, or Mechanical Engineering

Training Details:

You'd be given training at the work by your employer, which includes areas like health and safety, company procedures and operating different machineries.

Based on your position, you can take any of the NVQs given as below:

• Second level in Performing Engineering Operations
• Second and Third levels in Marine Engineering
• Second and Third levels in Mechanical Manufacturing-Engineering

Skills and knowledge:

• Computer-skills
• Capability to comprehend engineering board designs and instructions
• Physically fit
• Excellent practical abilities
• A knowledge of properties and strengths of metals
• Capability to work precisely
• Capability to focus for extended periods
• Excellent mathematical abilities to calculate cutting times and speeds

Salary and Other Benefits:

• Initial remunerations for engineering craft machinist can be about $13,000 to $16,000 for a year.
• By experience, earnings can boost to around $18,000 to $26,000.
• Engineering craft machinists having supervisory duties can receive about $31,000 annually.

Working Conditions:

Generally you'd work weekly for around 40 hours, on weekdays. You may have to work overtime and as per a shift scheme.

Your company/employer will usually give you overalls, ear defenders, goggles and safety boots.

Different Opportunities:

You can discover work opportunities within shipbuilding, aerospace and automotive industries, and mechanical engineering. You can also find work chances within maintenance work for businesses that need to replace parts on regular basis, e.g. in power generation or rail transport.

By experience you can advance to supervisor post of a workshop or production division. And by additional training, you can proceed to engineering technician positions.

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